TOBA TEK SINGH: Four arrested suspects who were allegedly involved in a robbery-cum-rape case were killed in a shooting in Faisalabad. The police spokesperson claimed that Nishatabad police were transporting the suspects for recovery of looted valuables on their indication. He said when the police van reached near Sem Nullah Bridge in Ghulam the Muhammadabad area, seven accomplices of the suspects on four motorcycles attacked the van with firearms and the attack was retaliated. Extra force was also called from Chak Jhumra and Ghulam Muhammadabad police stations along with Elite and Dolphin police squads. When firing stopped, police found all four suspects, who were in custody, injured while the unknown attackers fled. Surprisingly, no policeman was injured in the attack. All the injured suspects were shifted to Allied Hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. The spokesman said the suspects had received bullets fired by their own accomplices. He identified the suspects as Qasim Ali of Chiniot and Muhammad Islam, Zahid Zaidi and Muhammad Naveed of Chak 217-RB, alleging that they were involved in several robbery cases. Sources revealed that the suspects had gang-raped a newly married girl during robbery in September in the Nishatabad area. ARRESTED: A police team, headed by SSP investigation, arrested an alleged robber who had raped a married woman, mother of seven, during a robbery in Dijkot, Faisalabad on Friday night. Three robbers had forced their entry into the house of a 35-year-old woman on the Samundri Road on the backside of Jhoolay Lal hotel in Dijkot. She informed police that one of the outlaws had taken her out of her one-room house to the courtyard where he had raped her at gunpoint while his two accomplices stayed inside her room with her children. Robbers also took away cash, a mobile phone and other valuables. Faisalabad CPO Kamran Adil told the reporters that the investigation team traced the culprits through geofencing and successfully arrested the main suspect in a raid. He said further raids were under way to arrest his accomplices. ACCIDENT: Two persons died and as many were injured critically in the head-on collision between two motorcycles near Chak 265 RB, Nagan, located on Dijkot-Samundri Road on Saturday night. Reports said deceased Farman Aameen, 25, a moviemaker of Faisalabad was returning to Faisalabad from Gojra after covering a wedding while Majeed Maseeh of Chak 268-RB was returning from Faisalabad along with his wife and a baby. Due to speeding and heavy smog, their motorcycles collided with each other. The impact left all the four persons seriously wounded. Farman died on impact while Majeed and his wife and baby received critical injuries. They were shifted to the Dijkot Rural Health Centre where Majeed also succumbed to his injuries. DROWNING: Three persons riding a motorcycle fell into Jhang Branch Canal on Chak Jhumra-Chiniot Road, Faisalabad, and one of them drowned. Rescue 1122 said the three riders were on the way to Chak Jhumra and the accident took place due to speeding. Two of the riders were rescued while the efforts were under way to search for the body of the drowned man, identified as Muhammad Aslam (27), a resident of Noshehro Feroze, Sindh.